Confident Swimmers,
Confident Kids.
YMCA Swim Lessons helps ALL individuals learn an important life skill and support them in gaining the knowledge, ability, and stamina to become strong and confident swimmer.
WINTER I REGISTRATION
YMCA Member Registration:
December 16th, 2024
YMCA Community Registration:
December 23rd, 2024
The Winter I sessions will run:
January 6th - February 15th
Please contact krunkle@cookcountyymca.org with questions.
SESSIONS
Take a peek at our quick-look lesson schedule!
YMCA Member: $62.00
Community: $105.00
Not Sure Where To Start?
Try our Swim Lesson Selector below! Answer some basic questions about your swimmer and we will help you find the right class to meet their needs.
Ages 6 Months - 3 Years
In swim starters children develop body awareness, independence, water safety skills and comfort in the water through fun games, activities and confidence-building experiences. Parents and children also learn essential water safety skills. Close supervision is the best way to prevent drowning. Parents learn how to supervise children in the water, how to prevent accidents, and how to plan for emergencies.
Ages 3 Years - 12 Years
In Swim Basics, students develop a high level of comfort in the water by practicing safe water habits, engaging in underwater exploration, and learning how to swim to safety and exit if they fall into a body of water. By the end of this series of stages students will build endurance to be able to swim 15 yards each of their front stroke and back stroke as well at use the ‘swim, float, swim’ technique to swim 25 yards (one length of the pool) independently. Swimmers will also master the ‘jump, push, turn, grab’ self-rescue skill.
Ages 5 Years - 12 Years
In Swim Strokes, having mastered the fundamentals, students learn additional water safety skills and build stroke technique, developing skills that prevent chronic disease, increase social-emotional and cognitive well-being, and foster a lifetime of physical activity! Swimmers will learn and practice 6 key strokes; Front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, butterfly, sidestroke and elementary backstroke. By the end of this series of stages students will have built the endurance to swim 150 yards using any combination of learned strokes.
Ages 13 Years - Adult
Teens & Adults develop swim skills, independence, comfort, and stroke skills. Participants will build technique and confidence to improve personal safety around water, as well as efficiency in the water, endurance and speed.
Please contact Karen Runkle by email, krunkle@cookcountyymca.org, or by calling 218-387-3386 ext. 610 for more information about teen & adult lesson options.